Tues the 25th. we made a attempt at fishing commercially off of Monomy. Although some of the other boats in the fleet were doing well, we didn't. Managing to catch several shorts, we ended our day with 4 - 34+" Bass. Wednesday the 26th back to Monomy we headed, shortening our wire to 200'and changing to pink jigs we were soon to limit out ! Well that's what we had thought ! The weather kicked up on us forcing us into Cape Cod Bay. Spotting many birds working offshore, we decided to see what was up. To my surprise, the birds were working over breaking Stripers. Casting some of my home made creations, we caught numerous Bass in the 30-33"range. There were some commercial size Bass mixed in, and we landed 3 of them. As my luck has it, Commercial season ended that day. Thursday, was the day it would explode for us. After a strong north wind Wednesday night, we worked the beach off Sandy Neck. Tube and worm, was our method of catching and releasing over 35 Srtipers in the 25-40# range. Go to figure, commercial season ends and we load up. One nice thing to see was, a 8yr. old catch 2 bass over the 30# mark. He and his dad were not doing so well, so we decided to give him one of our rod setup's. They didn't have leadcore, so we loaned him one of ours. It was a treat for all of us to watch him struggle with these large fish on light tackle. Back on the water Tues. Will update later this week. Hope the fish stay where we had left them !

Back out on Lake Ontario for a couple of days last week (15th - 16th). Fishing was very good with 7 fish each day. All the Salmon were caught on dodgers and flies 100-120' down over 200-250' of water. Again, the colors are white glow (first thing am) then blue and green (mid morn) to the silvers (middle of day). After fishing Lake O, I returned back to the Ocean for a couple of trips. The first trip (19th) we launched in Sandwich to fish tuna off of the SW corner of Stellwagon. After our live baits were in the water, (for all of about 30 seconds) we were "Doubled Up". Unfortunately, the lines instantly crossed and both lines broke. Watching our balloons till 1 pm, they never dipped again. Rudy and his boys needed some action so we had headed into Striper waters. They landing six beauties between 20 and 30 #'s in about a hour to finish their 12 hour charter. On the 20th, we fished off Block Island with a crew from Gillette. They boated their first Striper in less than a minute after we throttled back. The action was hot and heavy all morning, boating over 25 fish. The only thing that could have been better than Jim's 40# er could have been less fog.
Over these 4 trips we had some beautiful fish, and also one unusual thing happen to us. On the 19th, we were headed to Plymouth to catch live bait in the dark. Nearing the harbor entrance, my boat started to make funny noises. We thought we had a lobster pot wrapped in our props. Well- to make a long story short, we were running over acres and acres of dogfish. As far as you could see there were dogfish covering the surface,

Back from Lake O. Weather, had changed the fishing pattern as I had arrived. Back to the little blue book for some past patterns, I went. Fishing bind Thurs, we had found the thermocline down 95'. Setting our riggers to 90,100 and 115' we had our first king on in less than 15 min. Using flashers and flies was our method of choice. The Lake Winni group boated 6 nice kings on Thurs and 2 Kings and two nice Rainbows on Sat. All of our fish were caught on blue flasher/flie combo's mostly 115' down and 330' on the dipsys. The bait pods were in 240 to 270' of water. Largest King of the trip was 38" long weighing a honest 29 #. Arriving back in MA on Sat, brought me back into the saltwater scene. Sunday morning, I headed off to RI to fish the waters of Block Island for a couple trips. Joe and Mike Shic, had been doing quite well, so I decided to try my luck in their area. Good fortune, was quite easy to find. We had limit catches of Stripers both days. Most of the fish we caught were in the 24-31# range. Eels in the 20 - 30' water depths was our most successful method. Although, we did catch a couple of smaller Stripers on pencil poppers. Back to Lake O, I head this weekend to help finish the camp. In the ocean mid next week for some tuna action !
Catch em up ! <'////><